Conversation, Community, and Facebook

[lashbear]

Stoaty says that Facebook is not conducive to full expression (EG: Susie-Ann Krellingshaw has never posted there). He prefers the LoT for his 0.20 posts per day.

[Snowflake]

Originally Posted by Moonliner

Here I have friends. I don't get tracked, data-mined, bartered, indexed, advertisements or spied on. I just get insulted. I like it here.'

Oh and anytime you all want to have an east coast salon meet up just let me know.

* Unless a 'salon' is some strange drug filled orgy type of thing.

I still check in here and miss the discussions. FB is fun but it's not LoT

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

I know LoT is not what it used to be, but I hope it is not going away soon.

Hear hear!!

[€uroMeinke]

So anyone besides Alex finding an outlet for this sort of thing?

Kevy - I've had the exact same experience recently and found even when I wanted to participate and be engaged it was hard to get back to the original post (despite Facebooks relentless keeping of everything everybody says). I find if I don't keep commenting on a topic it vanishes from my feed.

Greg - don't miss the combative exchanges, but I miss the thoughtful musings people would share - beyond the status statement.

Maybe it's time to dust off the Live Journal and learn some Russian.

[Alex]

For the record, I was never combative dammit.

[Kevy Baby]

Alex you ignorant slut.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

Funny you bring this up Chris as I have been thinking the same thing. I recently posted a topic on FB that I actually was hoping more would chime in on but didn't (I brought up how the Red Cross doesn't want any male who has had sex with another male since something like 1977).

Things get missed, a lot, whether it's because you posted it at some certain time of day where it got buried in a pile of other posts, or because not enough people saw it at the right moment to click like and get it seen by others who have said "only show me Kevy's important posts", or whatever. I recently realized I've been missing posts to certain fb groups and now had to set them to give me notifications because I have no idea why they're not showing up in my feed. And on, and on, and on.

I agree with Chris that conversations seem impossible to dig up sometimes. I found a really useful tool for that. If you go to your wall you can click Activity Log to see absolutely everything you've been up to in a dealable format. You can narrow down what you're seeing using filters on the left side.

In any case, nope, it's not the LoT. But the problem is that along with long form conversation and debate, the LoT was also about stupid memes, and the news, and funny images. With all that stuff moved on over to fb, it's hard to maintain just the long form over here. I miss it here, and I'm sad it's not what it was.

I'd love in-person salons. If I was childless. Or if every salon were at my house after said child goes to bed. Where the fvck is the Commune already?? You all want to live with a 3 year old, right?

[alphabassettgrrl]

I agree- FB just isn't the same as here. The format is hard to follow anything. I'm not entirely sure what to say on here, so I haven't said much. Sometimes the Soooooo.... thread feels ok to post in.

But I do miss the real conversations and in-person salons could be fun. My schedule is entirely random, which causes me problems every now and then, but I like face to face communication much better than online stuff anyway.

[lashbear]

All the salons should be held in Australia. Mary Poppins said so.

[Strangler Lewis]

Facebook is good for seeing how the people you went to grade school with have gone to sh*t over the years. It's also good for keeping up with the ongoing battle over who has the best hubby because of various mundane kindnesses and for feeling brave by not reposting sentimental piffle about various family members. It's also actually good for keeping up in a coffee klatch way on people's day to day. But focused discussions: not so good. Not nearly as good as the LoT.